Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She holds up a sepia portrait of a turn of the century belle in a high-necked Russian blouse , standing before the backdrop of a painted Arcadia , with balustrades and beckoning groves . |
| 2 | She holds up a Waitrose bag . |
| 3 | In this way she sets out a research agenda for applications-related research which serves a similar function to the spatial analysis research agenda set out by Openshaw at the beginning of Part Two . |
| 4 | Everyone is aware of the sensation experienced in a lift as it starts to descend , and in a car when it goes over a humped-back bridge . |
| 5 | He holds up a cricket bat . |
| 6 | It heads up a pop promotion with a wonderful shout line : A-WOP-BOP-A-SIDGWICK-A-LOP-BAM-PAN ! ! |
| 7 | He asks for credit terms and , at the trader 's suggestion , he fills in a finance company 's hire purchase proposal form , which is in fact an offer made by the customer and addressed to the finance company to acquire the item from the finance company on hire purchase terms . |
| 8 | It bounces off a back rib and exits through Pauline 's back . |
| 9 | As it passes over a toll point in the road ( essentially a wire loop buried in the surface ) a radio beam from the loop will interrogate the number plate and feed back the vehicle number to a central computer . |
| 10 | It rules out a star cluster and requires an object of stellar dimensions or less . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd better go , before he sends out a search party or something . ’ |
| 12 | He gives up a day job to write down the stories — of the Secret Mountain , the Sound that could be Seen , the Slow Children and the Magic Duvet — that he once told for free to a rabble of offspring and other kin and friends . |
| 13 | As he follows up a security leak about a number of suspicious deaths in the nuclear industry , around him a more macabre series of murders are taking place . |
| 14 | fantastic it stirs up a hornets nest . |
| 15 | Due to the large farming industry in his area , nitrates are high , so a nitrate filter has been incorporated , based on the DIY model made by Nick Dakin in PFK May ‘ 91 , and Jay uses a Nitragon when he carries out a water change . |
| 16 | He rolls up a dollar bill , and stares at it as if deliberately recalling something . |